OAKLAND, Calif. -- Joe Nedney didn't cost the Broncos a first-round choice. Mike Shanahan didn't have to entice him with a $2 million signing bonus. Nedney received none.

But the former Raider badly outkicked Oakland's first-round choice, Sebastian Janikowski, in their first reunion since training camp in Sunday's 33-24 Broncos victory.

	Nedney

"It wasn't as much a redemption issue," Nedney said. "It was me going back in my old place and putting the heat on them."

Raiders fans tried to cool down the hot Nedney, who made all four field-goal attempts and scored 15 points while filling in for the injured Jason Elam. On his fourth field-goal attempt, a 21-yarder, a Raider fan threw an ice cube within his line of sight as he was set to make his kick.

"Actually, I expected them to throw more at me, so one ice cube was pretty mild," Nedney said. "I never knew that the fans knew so much about my famliy. They were talking about my mom, my wife."

As the grumbling Raider fans walked out of Network Associates Coliseum, they mumbled displeasure about Janikowski, who missed a critical 49-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and fell down on a game-opening, 39-yard kickoff.

For the season, Janikowski is 2-of-5 on field-goal attempts. His three misses have been wide left. Nedney's average kickoff went a yard deep in the end zone. Janikowski's kickoffs went to the opponent's 5.

	“	I never knew that the fans knew so much about my famliy. They were talking about my mom, my wife. ”
		— Joe Nedney, Broncos kicker

After the game, Janikowski said he needs to train differently for his kickoffs during the week. The Raiders are a directional kicking team. The Broncos kick straight ahead.

"I'm going to continue to support him," Raiders coach Jon Gruden said of Janikowski. "We're going to do whatever work he needs to get done. If we have to modify his routine and make it more stringent, we'll do that."

Though not as bizarre as seeing Janikowski fall on his rear on the opening kickoff, a fourth-quarter sequence illustrates that the transition of the powerful Florida State kicker isn't going well. Trailing 30-24 with nine minutes remaining, the Raiders drove to the Broncos' 26 and had a fourth-and-1.

Instead of sending out Janikowski, Gruden opted to go for the fourth-and-1. Janikowski would've been attempting a 44-yarder on the infield dirt. Gruden didn't want to risk it. Unfortunately for the Raiders, veteran receiver Andre Rison had an illegal procedure penalty, forcing a fourth-and-6.

Janikowski was kicking further and from the same dirt. The kick went wide left. So did the Raiders chances of winning.

"He's had a rough go of it," Nedney said of Janikowski. "We needed that miss to gain momentum. The slip on the kickoff was bad footing because they water down the field before the game. He's having problems right now, but he's going to do all right."

But is all right what the Raiders expected from their first-round pick? After all, they passed up the chance to draft wide receiver Sylvester Morris, who caught three touchdown passes for the Chiefs on the day Janikowski missed his third field goal of the season.

The Raiders figured that they had only one chance to select Janikowski. Waiting until the second round wasn't going to work because they were sure that some other team would take him. They justified their position because they drafted receiver Jerry Porter in the second round.

Janikowski was supposed to solve their history of losing three or four games a season because of poor kicking. Being outkicked by Nedney rubbed it in.

"I talked to Joe before and after the game," Janikowski said. "He had a good game. That's it. I hate losing. That's all I have to say."

One sign read, "Let's Get Plastered With Sebastian," an obvious reference to his party days at Florida State. Janikowski was in no mood to party Sunday.

John Clayton is the senior NFL writer for ESPN.com.